First solo non stop transpacific?

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Hi

I know Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn crossed the pacific non stop in
1931, but who was the first person to fly transpacific non stop solo?

[Dave S]

Fossett?

wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn crossed the pacific non stop in
> 1931, but who was the first person to fly transpacific non stop solo?
>

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Do you think? Somebody must have done it between 1931 and 2005

[James Robinson]

wrote:
>
> Do you think? Somebody must have done it between 1931 and 2005

Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly solo between Hawaii and
California (Oakland) She did it in 1935, then westbound in 1937, when
she first set out on her first, failed, round-the-world flight.

http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html

Wiley Post was the first to fly solo around the world. He first did it
in 1931 with a navigator, then repeated it in 1933 alone. He took a
northerly route across Siberia and Alaska, however. I wouldn't really
count as a trans-pacific flight.

http://www.acepilots.com/post.html

[Icebound]

Fossett and his navigator/copilot Mark Rebholz left Toronto today in the
replica Vickers Vimy on the first leg to position at St. John's Newfoundland
for the cross-Atlantic try on June 14, 86th? anniversary of original flight.

http://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nf-vickers-vimy-050601

I didn't see the take-off but am sure that it will be on the 6-o'clock news
tonight.

Saw an early morning TV report with the motors running and mechanics
tweaking things. Looks like a sweet machine. Hope things go well...

[David CL Francis]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 at 20:19:52 in message >,
James Robinson > wrote:

>Wiley Post was the first to fly solo around the world. He first did it
>in 1931 with a navigator, then repeated it in 1933 alone. He took a
>northerly route across Siberia and Alaska, however. I wouldn't really
>count as a trans-pacific flight.

I am interested as to how people would define a 'round the world'
flight. To me the Wiley Post flight does not really qualify..

For example would taking off from a northern airport (Like say SVALBARD,
Norway, Longyear on Spitzbergan) around 78 degrees North, flying to the
North Pole, doing a circuit around it and then returning to the start
count?

That would be less than 2,000 miles for the round trip, but who would
believe you had flown all round the world, even though you had crossed
every meridian?
--
David CL Francis

[Cub Driver]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:10:08 GMT, David CL Francis
> wrote:

>I am interested as to how people would define a 'round the world'
>flight. To me the Wiley Post flight does not really qualify..

Sailors have solved this problem with respect to going "around the
Horn." (If you go around the Horn, you are qualified to wear a gold
ring in your left ear.) It's not going *around* the Horn unless you
start from at least 50 south and reach at least 50 south on the other
coast.

There are a bunch of boats in Ushiaia, Argentina, that take punters
out *to* Cabo de Hornos. It' can be done in one day if the weather is
good. But that's going *to* the Horn, not rounding it.

Though I doubt the punters make that distinction when they get home :)

A similar useful rule would be that an around-the-world flight has to
be made between points located between 50 south and 50 north.


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[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, said:
>A similar useful rule would be that an around-the-world flight has to
>be made between points located between 50 south and 50 north.

There was such a rule applied to Fossett's flight, that it had to stay
within certain latitudes and the total length had to be at least as long
as such-and-such.


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Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"I spend 2/3's of every conference call trying to keep him from opening
his mouth and letting stupid pour out of it." - Joe Hetrick

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Yes, today the FAI rule is, that in order to count as a
circumnavigation the flight has to cover a distance at least equal to
the Topic of Cancer (parallel of latitude at 23=B030' north of the
equator - farthest point north at which the sun can be seen directly
overhead at noon). 36,788 km.

Fossett's official distance was 36,898.04 km (compared to
Rutan/Yeager's 40,212.14 km in Voyager).